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hey guys today we’re gonna talk about

potassium and I don’t know if you knew

this but the prehistoric diet was very

high in potassium currently an average

male consumes about 3,000 milligrams

potassium honestly I think it’s less

than that but these are these are the

numbers that I got women about a little

more than 2000 milligrams of potassium

okay per day the RDA for potassium is

4700 prehistorically and there’s limited

data on this but the data that I found

ranges between 7,000 and 15,000

milligrams of potassium that’s a lot of

potassium our bodies need a lot of

potassium for many reasons one is that

each cell has a sodium potassium pump so

it uses a lot of those minerals to

create energy and move things around in

the body prehistorically potassium was

consumed through greens tubers and roots

I’m gonna recommend stick with the

greens and not do any type of potatoes

but the body is very flexible with

potassium if it has too much it gets rid

of it if it doesn’t have enough it does

retain it and also when you’re doing in

a minute fasting you will conserve

potassium and you won’t need as much

okay fYI but the body does hold sodium

so what’s even a little bit more

important than the quantity of these

minerals is the ratio of the minerals

you need four times as much potassium to

sodium an average person in America has

a one to four ratio very light on the

potassium very heavy on the sodium not

even from the foods but from the refined

carbs that deplete potassium and then

ahold sodium so when you do a high carb

diet you’re holding a lot of sodium and

you’re in you’re losing on a potassium

so you have this severe imbalance so

when your potassium deficient or you’re

on a potassium deficiency I mean meaning

that you’re not consuming enough

vegetables you tend to get high blood

pressure and a high pulse rate

eventually

kidney stones insulin resistance one way

to improve insulin resistance is to

increase your potassium when you have

insulin resistance you can’t absorb

potassium but taking more can improve

insulin resistance but not having enough

can throw off your blood sugars big-time

not having enough potassium can increase

your risk of stroke one big symptom is

fatigue and low endurance you go to the

gym you just don’t have that vitality

can’t last that long also you increases

your risk for cardiac hypertrophy what

does that mean it means the heart

actually enlarges when you take

potassium and actually can go to the

normal size that it needs the problem

though when you go to your doctor and

get your potassium assess is they’re

looking in the blood outside the cell

well only 2% of your potassium reserves

are outside the cell 98% are inside the

cell that’s why they’re gonna miss it

you have to do a special test which is

intracellular potassium and the way

people are deficient in potassium is

they’re not consuming enough of the

right foods okay so I’m going to show

you in my book this book okay

I’m page 122 I listed a lot of

vegetables okay so what you’re going to

notice when you read this is that most

of the foods on this list are so high in

potassium and so low in sodium it’s not

even the four to one ratio it’s probably

like 12 to 1 okay but we do need some

sea salt for sure especially when you’re

doing in a bit of fasting and healthy

ketosis but the point I’m trying to

bring up is that when you do ketosis

make sure you do it healthily and make

sure you do foods that are high in

potassium it just so happens though

those foods are also high in magnesium

the two top minerals that most people

are deficient in now high sugar diets

will deplete potassium refined

carbohydrates will deplete potassium and

stress will do it too so this is why if

you go through surgery for example they

may give you some potassium in an IV

before hand or during because the high

levels of stress that occur under

surgery can deplete your potassium

levels interesting so anything with

stress injury shock surgery you need

more potassium if you don’t have enough

in your reserve you can have all sorts

of problems alright guys thanks for

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